Category Latvia
SEARCHING FOR MY ANCESTRY
Searching for my ancestry Thursday July 11th was a long, exhausting, interesting and emotional day for me. We, Ted (who was our volunteer chauffeur) and Margi, two orienteering friends and Pete and I set off early on our 500 km round trip to Rezekne, 250 kms to the east of Riga and just 60 kms […]
DOUBLE BUMBUKALNS.
Our Latvian Orienteering is over. Two days in the Bumukalns forest on the banks of the Lielupe inlet, close to the Baltic sea. The terrain was classic sand dues with establish pine forest with little other vegetation apart from a dense mat of moss, lichen and other grasses. The visibility was great but the track […]
FAFFING DAY
Sunrise in Riga this morning was at 4.43 am. Sunset is at 10.14 pm tonight. Daylight hours are long at this time of the year. Blackout curtains are a must if you want to sleep! After yesterday’s hail and torrential downpours, we woke to rain again this morning. It seems to be that it rains […]
IN RAIN HAIL & SHINE.
The sprint Orienteering is done and we have a rest day tomorrow. The day started out cool and damp and we were able to walk to the start beneath a national monument in a park on the edge of the CBD. Ilze was able to get away early and found the going damp underfoot and […]
IT WAS A LONG WAY FOR A TURKISH TAKE-AWAY
Sorry there was no blog yesterday. Our arrival from Istanbul did not go well, delayed by 90 minutes and found that our driver had given up and left and despite Ilse’s language skills we couldn’t work out if he was coming back to get us. We waited another half an hour and then gave up […]
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